The final Afternoons at The Meadows walk enjoyed warm, sunny weather with an ocean breeze. Birding highlights include: Indigo Bunting singing in the parking lot and Mississippi Kites flying overhead; Gadwalls and Blue-winged Teal; American Oystercatchers with chicks being fed mole crabs; a Piping Plover in the exclosure and one feeding on the beach. Leaders: Chuck Slugg and Warren Cairo.
48 species
Canada Goose 26
Mute Swan 22
Gadwall 10
Mallard 12
Blue-winged Teal 2
Great Egret 4
Snowy Egret 2
Glossy Ibis 6
Turkey Vulture 4
Osprey 5
Mississippi Kite 3
Piping Plover 2
Killdeer 4
American Oystercatcher 7
Willet 1
Semipalmated Sandpiper 3
Least Sandpiper 20
Laughing Gull 20
Ring-billed Gull 4
Herring Gull 6
Great Black-backed Gull 30
Least Tern 40
Common Tern 2
Forster's Tern 35
Black Skimmer 2
Rock Pigeon 3
Mourning Dove 4
Chimney Swift 3
Merlin 1 Flying from Cape May west along the dune line toward the
Lighthouse at The Meadows; spooked the birds on Nature Conservancy scrape as it
streaked overhead; too fast, small, and dark to be a Peregrine Falcon.
Eastern Kingbird 3
American Crow 3
Fish Crow 12
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 2
Purple Martin 10
Tree Swallow 3
Barn Swallow 5
Northern Mockingbird 1
Cedar Waxwing 3
Common Yellowthroat 1 heard
Yellow Warbler 1
Song Sparrow 2
Northern Cardinal 4
Blue Grosbeak 1
Indigo Bunting 1
Red-winged Blackbird 14
Common Grackle 6
Brown-headed Cowbird 1
House Sparrow 2
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